Sometimes understanding what is bothering someone and fixing it is pretty easy. Here is an example: They had a recent cold and now their ear hurts. I look into the ear and it is red and swollen. I give them antibiotics and a decongestant and they feel better. Done. But so much of doctoring is … Read more
Can your Apple Watch and iPhone tell you if you have COVID-19? Apple Inc. is teaming up with the University of Washington’s School of Medicine and the Seattle Flu Study to answer this question. In a study that will take place over the next six months, researchers will attempt to detect early signs of respiratory illness with Apple Watches. … Read more
Journal My Health, a new app created by local entrepreneur Tracey Welson-Rossman, is billed as a tool for patients and their physicians to manage illness. The app, which allows users to track symptoms in a private, detailed and simple manner, is intended to help patients give their providers as accurate of a picture of their … Read more
While many Americans can see the end of the pandemic in sight, for those who contracted COVID-19 and have developed chronic health conditions as a result, the pandemic’s effects will linger for a while. As scientists continue to learn about these patients — long haulers, as they’re often called — Tracey Welson-Rossman of Chariot Solutions and TechGirlz has launched a tech tool … Read more
Free, personalized app helps patients improve their health outcomes by easily tracking symptoms and sharing reports of their health experience with providers.
Written by Marta Becker, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Journal My Health. When you were a kid, didn’t you love connect-the-dots? The best puzzles were the complicated ones, where you couldn’t tell what the picture was going to be until you started connecting the dots, and then slowly the image would emerge of a dolphin … Read more
NBC News surveyed dozens of “post-Covid” clinics across the country to find out how they’re helping patients recover from an illness with no known cure.
Some Covid-19 patients are experiencing shortness of breath, fatigue, headaches and “brain fog” for months to nearly a year after their initial illness. Now, global medical experts are working to better diagnose and treat them for what they are tentatively calling “long Covid.” Earlier this week, the World Health Organization hosted a global meeting with … Read more
When Mount Sinai Hospital opened its Center for Post-Covid Care in May, it was New York’s — and the country’s — first such facility. The doctors there expected to treat patients who had been severely ill or hospitalized. By that point, three months into the pandemic, they knew that the coronavirus could cause harm to … Read more
A Texas trauma surgeon says it’s rare that X-rays from any of her COVID-19 patients come back without dense scarring. Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall tweeted, “Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker’s lung we’ve ever seen. And they collapse. And they clot off. And the shortness of breath lingers on… and on…. and … Read more
